State v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Duffy (1998), State v. Martinez (1999)
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Gonzales · State v. Chamberlain · State v. Martin · State v. Anderson · State v. Baca
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he identity exception to Rule 11-404(B) may be invoked when identity is at issue and when the similarity of the other [ act ] demonstrates a unique or distinct pattern easily attributable to one person .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gwynne · Lucero v. Kerby“[q]uestions concerning a possible gap in the chain of custody affects the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez“sufficiently distinctive similarities to permit an inference of pattern for purposes of proving identity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucero v. Kerby
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.